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Alexandra Carter
Ask For More
$35.00
Negotiation is a key skill for your job, your closest relationships, and even your everyday life, but often people shy away from it, feeling like they’re marching into battle or that they’re settling for less. Enter Alexandra Carter, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Program at Columbia University, NYC, who has taught students, business professionals and even the United Nations for more than a decade on this very topic. In Ask for More: Ten Questions to Improve Your Negotiations, Your Relationships and Your Life, Carter brings her breadth of knowledge to help anyone, regardless of their situation, ask for - and get - more.Visit product page →
Rather than adhering to the popular narrative that only the loudest and most assertive among us get what they want, Carter invites readers to rethink negotiation entirely. Through asking open-ended questions rather than panicked ones, you’ll be better able to steer a conversation, a negotiation, and ultimately a relationship for long-term success. She teaches a simple, yet powerful, ten-question framework for successful negotiation. The first five questions are the ones you first need to ask yourself (called 'mirror' questions) and the last five are the ones you ask who you’re negotiating with (called 'window' questions). The responses to such questions as "what’s brought me here?", "how do I feel?" and "what do I need?" will pave the way for a productive conversation based on values and needs. Carter’s method helps readers go far beyond one “yes” or handshake to create value that lasts a lifetime.
Accessible, powerful, and inspiring, Ask for More gives readers the tools to bring clarity and perspective to any important discussion. -
Lisa Butterworth
How To Detox Your Home
$20.00
Visit product page →Looking for chemical-free ways to clean and maintain your home?
Curious about incorporating non-toxic products into your daily routine?
We spend nearly every day of our lives in our homes - making meals, sleeping, nurturing families, celebrating with friends. Our home is where we should feel comfortable and safe, but many of us are being unnecessarily exposed to unhealthy elements without realising it - from cleaning supplies to the clothes in our wardrobes and the make-up products we use.
This fully illustrated resource is packed full of alternatives to environmentally unfriendly items that might be in your cupboards, unique recipes for creating your own products, checklists for detoxing each room, and will help you make informed decisions about how to sustainably nourish your home and lifestyle.
How to Detox Your Home is the perfect solution for anyone who wants to create a safe and eco-friendly living space.
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Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Option B
$23.00
In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg's husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.Visit product page →
Just weeks later, Sandberg was talking with a friend about the first father-child activity without a father. They came up with a plan for someone to fill in. "But I want Dave," she cried. Her friend put his arm around her and said, "Option A is not available. So let's just kick the shit out of Option B."
Everyone experiences some form of Option B. We all deal with loss- jobs lost, loves lost, lives lost. The question is not whether these things will happen but how we face them when they do.
Thoughtful, honest, revealing and warm, OPTION B weaves Sandberg's experiences coping with adversity with new findings from Adam Grant and other social scientists. The book features stories of people who recovered from personal and professional hardship, including illness, injury, divorce, job loss, sexual assault and imprisonment. These people did more than recover-many of them became stronger.
OPTION B offers compelling insights for dealing with hardships in our own lives and helping others in crisis. It turns out that post-traumatic growth is common-even after the most devastating experiences many people don't just bounce back but actually bounce forward. And pre-traumatic growth is also possible- people can build resilience even if they have not experienced tragedy. Sandberg and Grant explore how we can raise strong children, create resilient communities and workplaces, and find meaning, love and joy in our lives. -
Scrumptious Reads
The Essence Of Happiness
$17.00
Drawn from His Holiness the Dalai Lama's bestselling THE ART OF HAPPINESS, with Dr Howard C. Cutler, this book contains simple advice on how to achieve lasting happiness in our everyday lives. Going straight to the heart of the matter, each page offers a gem of spiritual wisdom to enable us to defeat depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy - and the many and varied emotions that form a barrier to our happiness.Visit product page →Melding the knowledge of 2500 years of Buddhist meditations with modern Western psychology, THE ESSENCE OF HAPPINESS offers great spiritual balance and joy, and a source of profound wisdom that can be called upon anywhere, anytime. The perfect gift, and the perfect companion to THE ART OF HAPPINESS.
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Stephen R. Covey
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
$30.00
The 7 habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!Visit product page →
With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.
They include:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. -
Ian Doors
The Self Isolation Activity Book
$25.00
Visit product page →You might be stuck at home, but that doesn't mean you have to be bored
Are you stuck inside, bored out of your brain, desperate for things to do?
Looking to fill the ever-diminishing gap between stopping drinking coffee and starting drinking booze?
Has the incessant comforting warmth of your laptop on top of your lap started to genuinely freak you out?
Then you need The Self Isolation Activity Book. Written by Ian Doors, a man who spent all of his time alone in his flat ages before you all started doing it.
Packed full of quick and easy activities, including games, mental exercises and colouring in, as well as handy hints and kitchen cupboard food and drink tips, this is the only book you'll need to make the most of your time inside.
Also, the last few pages can be ripped out and used as toilet paper. Can't help but feel like all other books are missing a trick there.
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Jo Peters
The Art of Japanese Living
$35.00
Visit product page →Learn the Japanese secrets to finding calm, contentment and happiness
With its roots in Buddhist thinking, Japanese culture is known for its sincere and mindful approach to life. From Ikigai (finding your purpose) to Ikebana (the art of flower arranging), Japanese ideas offer the wider world the promise of peacefulness and inspiration.
Discover these calming insights and more inside this beautiful volume. Including tips on mindfulness, finding contentment, and doing more with less, this book will be your guide to the land of the rising sun, and help you to live a rich, joyful and thoughtful life.
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Sue Radd
Food As Medicine
$55.00
Good nutrition-and good health-starts in your kitchen! And this beautiful cookbook offers 150 delicious plant-based recipes developed by a nutritionist and cook for your best health, addressing the underlying causes of our most-common lifestyle diseases.Visit product page →
"In my earliest memories of cooking, I picture my grandmother at her wood stove and kitchen garden in Croatia-and me climbing her sour cherry trees! She was always teaching me the value of homemade food and 'unsprayed' produce," says author Sue Radd.
"Whether you are looking to stay well and prevent disease or influence the progression of an advanced medical condition, it's never too late to start reaping benefits. Your diet is the cornerstone of health improvement. So here is my gift to you: 150 of my best recipes showing you how to use food as medicine in your own home and, at the back of the book, a summary of the current scientific evidence of how and why these recipes can transform the health of you and your family."
About the Author
Sue Radd is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and one of Australia’s leading nutritionists and health communicators. Recognised by her peers as an expert on plant foods and phytonutrients, Sue is co-author of the internationally published Eat to Live, Winner of “Best Nutrition Writing” at the Vittoria Australian Food Media Awards for The Breakfast Book, and was awarded the Dietitians Association of Australia President’s Award for Innovation for her Culinary Medicine Cookshops. Sue passionately believes that to live well you need to eat well! -
Matt Gaw
Under The Stars
$28.00
Light pollution is everywhere. Not only is it damaging to humans and to wildlife, disrupting our natural rhythms, but it obliterates the subtler lights that have guided us for millennia. Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter … When you turn off the electricity, other forms of light reveal themselves.Visit product page →
In this beautifully written exploration, Matt Gaw ventures forth into darkness to find out exactly what we’re losing. Walking by the light of the moon in Suffolk and under the scattered buckshot of starlight in Scotland; braving the darkest depths of Dartmoor; investigating the glare of 24/7 London and the suburban sprawl of Bury St Edmunds; and, finally, rediscovering a sense of the sublime on the Isle of Coll, he finds beauty and awe, fear and wonder in the interplay between light and dark that is as old as time.
A stunning investigation of the power of light, this beautiful book is a timely and urgent reminder to reconnect with the natural world, showing how we only need to step outside to find that, in darkness, the world lights up. -
Jonah Berger
The Catalyst
$35.00
Everyone has something they want to change. Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organisations. Start-ups want to change industries and nonprofits want to change the world. But change is hard. Often, we persuade and pressure and push, but nothing moves. Could there be a better way?Visit product page →
This book takes a different approach. Successful change agents know it’s not about pushing harder, or providing more information, it’s about being a catalyst. Catalysts remove roadblocks and reduce the barriers to change. Instead of asking, “How could I change someone’s mind?” they ask a different question: “Why haven’t they changed already? What’s stopping them?”
The Catalyst identifies the key barriers to change and how to mitigate them. You’ll learn how catalysts change minds in the toughest of situations: how hostage negotiators get people to come out with their hands up and how marketers get new products to catch on, how leaders transform organisational culture and how activists ignite social movements, how substance abuse counsellors get addicts to realise they have a problem, and how political canvassers change deeply rooted political beliefs.
This book is designed for anyone who wants to catalyse change. It provides a powerful way of thinking and a range of techniques that can lead to extraordinary results. Whether you’re trying to change one person, transform an organisation, or shift the way an entire industry does business, this book will teach you how to become a catalyst. -
Julia Baird
Phosphorescence
$35.00
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times.Visit product page →
Over the last decade, we have become better at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there are a few core truths to science of happiness. We know that being kind and altruistic makes us happy, that turning off devices, talking to people, forging relationships, living with meaning and delving into the concerns of others offer our best chance at achieving happiness. But how do we retain happiness? It often slips out of our hands as quickly as we find it. So, when we are exposed to, or learn, good things, how do we continue to burn with them?
And more than that, when our world goes dark, when we're overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain, how do we survive, stay alive or even bloom? In the muck and grit of a daily existence full of disappointments and a disturbing lack of control over many of the things that matter most - finite relationships, fragile health, fraying economies, a planet in peril - how do we find, nurture and carry our own inner, living light - a light to ward off the darkness?
Absorbing, achingly beautiful, inspiring and deeply moving, Julia Baird has written exactly the book we need for these times.
About the Author
Julia Baird is a globally renowned author and award-winning journalist. She hosts The Drum on ABC TV and writes columns forThe New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. After the publication of her first book, Media Tarts - based on her history PhD on the portrayal of female politicians - she moved to the United States to take up a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2007, she became senior editor of Newsweek in New York. Her work has earned her four Walkley Our Watch awards, a Walkley Award for team election reporting, and two further Walkley nominations. Julia's biography of Queen Victoria was published in several countries to critical acclaim and was one of 'The New York Times' top ten books of 2016.
She lives near the sea with two children, a tyrannical cat and an abnormally large dog. -
Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit
$20.00
We can always change. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg translates cutting-edge behavioural science into practical self-improvement action, distilling advanced neuroscience into fascinating narratives of transformation.Visit product page →
Why can some people and companies change overnight, and some stay stuck in their old ruts? The answer lies deep in the human brain, and The Power of Habits reveals the secret pressure points that can change a life. From Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to Martin Luther King Jr., from the CEO of Starbucks to the locker rooms of the NFL, Duhigg explores the incredible results of keystone habits, and how they can make all the difference between billions and millions, failure and success - or even life and death.
The Power of Habit makes an exhilarating case- the key to almost any door in life is instilling the right habit. From exercise to weight loss, childrearing to productivity, market disruption to social revolution, and above all success, the right habits can change everything.
Habits aren't destiny. They're science, one which can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
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